Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-08-12

worship, and a splendid school hous
is being build on handsome site dc
mated by the townsite company.
Walla Walla Union: The numbe
OF convicts at present in the peniten
tiary is ninety-nine. When brough
over from the Sound they numbered
but ninety-three, but since that TIM
eight have been discharged from Gus
tody and fourteen new ones brough
in.
The Toledo Pilot says that the hay
crop on the prairies of Lewis county
is short, and will bring high prices
this season. Hay on the timber farm.
Is over an average crop. -. Barnett
near Toledo sold one acre of standing
grass for $50. Grain is also short on
the prairies.
Messrs. Kelly & Dolman have just
started a stocking mill at Tacoma
avenue, where they are turning out
by improved machinery hosiery of all
kinds, which they can sell at prices
cheaper than goods of like quality can
be purchased of the wholesale houses
in San Francisco and Portland.
The first lightning and thunder
storm of any consequence in the re-
membrance of the oldest inhabitant OF
Adams county, occurred on Monday,
the 1st inst. It killed a valuable
horse, the property of Mr.. Bowers.
A private letter received stated that
the severe lightning was quite curl
osity.
About $4,000 has been expended
on the new Custom House building at
Port Townsend, in the purchase of the
site, excavations, building foundations
and basement, leaving just $4,000 of
the original appropriation. 1t is hoped
that an additional appropriation of
$4,000 will be secured to extend the
plans another floor, for the use of the
U. S. Courts.
Two more freight trains, one each
way, are to be put on the Cascade divi-
sion at once. The freight traffic, both
through and local, has increased so
rapidly as to necessitate the holding
of trains 13 and IA for through busi-
ness. and adding two more for way
freight. The run of conductors on
the Cascade division now extends from
Pasco to Ellensburg and from Ellens-
burg to Portland.
From the report of Deputy Assessor
WoOdman of Clarke county, the
following statistics are obtained by the
Oregonian: Acres owned in the coun-
ty, 147,OlO, exclusive of railroad land
and homesteads; improved land, IT,
S67 acres; value of land, $S2S, ,456
value of improvements, $4l7,2 ,2I1 ;
value of personal property, $5l6 ,399 ;
total valuation of all property in the
county, $1,7s9,S66; population s.
600.
The Northern Pacific Express Com
pany has withdrawn from all the lines
of the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company, excepting the Sound steam
er lines, and its place will De taken by
the Pacific Express Company, an az
pendage of the Union Pacific railroad.
The relations between the two roads
will be friendly and each will do the
others business over their respective
lines, and neither company will invade
the others territory.
The Odd Fellows of Seattle have
sent out the following circular letter,
which may be Of interest to the Order
at this end of the Sound: "Olive
Branch Lodge No. and Seattle No.
z have adopted this method of notify
ing all lodges within this jurisdiction
that Grace Hospital, an institution in
perfect harmony with our Order, re-
Gently built in Seattle and now under
the control and management of Epis-
copalians, has been specially selected
for the accommodation Of sick Broth.
ers requiring hospital"
Otsego IN. W Farmer: In speaking
of his Western trip, Senator Warner
Miller said: ain Washington Terri.
tory ! visited the hop-region, which
sprang into prominence and prosper
ity last year because of the failure oi
the crop in this State. The hop-grow.
ers of Washington made great sums
of money out of their crop. The fer.
tility of the soil will make this one OF
the greatest hop-growing regions in
the world. The yield of hops per acre
is greater than anywhere else. They
have had no worms as yet.
During the visit at Port Angeles, the
Governor went to a hotel, not run by
the Colony, to get his breakfast. The
hour on his visit being quite early, the
proprietor had not yet risen, so the
Governor went himself to the kitchen
to order breakfast for himself and
party, but upon discovering that the
culinary department was presided over
by Chinaman, he went back and
told his friends he proposed to 60 to
the colony hotel, he would not 60 to a
house that employed Mongolians.-
Model Commonwealth.
The Inland Empire will this season
produce larger and better crop OF
cereals than ever before. There is not
a field of either Fall or Spring sown
wheat but what will yield a full crop
a state of affairs never known before.